Huck Vows. I'll send em all home.

Huckabee in a press conference signing a www.Numberusa.com pledge is a very good sign in my view. I may be changing my view on this guy.


Article published Jan 17, 2008
Huckabee vows to send all illegal aliens home


January 17, 2008


By Stephen Dinan - TIGERVILLE, S.C. — Former Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday continued to move to the
right on immigration during this year's presidential
campaign, signing a pledge to enforce immigration laws
and to make all illegal aliens go home.

The pledge, offered by immigration control advocacy
group Numbers USA, commits Mr. Huckabee to oppose a
new path to citizenship for current illegal aliens and
to cut the number of illegal aliens already in the
country through attrition by law enforcement —
something Mr. Huckabee said he will achieve through
his nine-point immigration plan.

"Some would say it's a tough plan. It is, but it's
also fair and reasonable," Mr. Huckabee said.

Mr. Huckabee signed the pledge in South Carolina,
whose Saturday Republican primary is shaping up as the
most important contest so far. Unlike the previous
primaries and caucuses, which have been contested
usually by just two candidates, four Republicans are
making all-out efforts here: Mr. Huckabee, former Sen.
Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Sen. John McCain of
Arizona and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.

Mr. Romney campaigned in South Carolina fresh off his
Tuesday win over Mr. McCain in Michigan's primary. And
though he held a lead here earlier last year, he tried
to lower expectations yesterday, telling reporters
that the pressure is really on Mr. McCain, who now
leads in the polls here.

As the front-runner, Mr. McCain finds himself playing
defense. Yesterday, he had one surrogate challenge
charges on abortion and other issues from Common Sense
Issues, a Colorado-based group that the Associated
Press said is conducting push-polling here, and had
another group of surrogates respond to charges from a
group called Vietnam Veterans Against McCain.

The McCain campaign said the veterans group is
circulating fliers that say Mr. McCain turned his back
on fellow prisoners of war in order to receive special
treatment while in captivity in Vietnam.

One issue that continues to hurt Mr. McCain here is
immigration. Many voters say he supports amnesty for
illegal aliens, and they point to his partnership with
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, to try
to pass a bill to legalize illegal aliens.

Mr. McCain has said he "got the message" from his
bill's defeat last year in the Senate — when a
majority of senators voted to filibuster his bill.

He says that as a senator from a border state, he
knows how to secure the borders and says border
governors would have to certify that fact before a
guest-worker program and legalization could go
forward. But Mr. McCain still supports a pathway to
citizenship, and it's not clear how different his new
stance is from the bill that failed.

Mr. Huckabee has faced some of the same questions, and
yesterday's pledge — signed at a press conference with
Numbers USA Executive Director Roy Beck — was an
effort to provide answers.

It's a major reversal from less than two months ago,
when Mr. Beck told The Washington Times that Mr.
Huckabee was "an absolute disaster" on immigration
during his time as governor. Americans for Better
Immigration, another group Mr. Beck runs, has rated
Mr. Huckabee's record as "poor."

Mr. Huckabee fought for tuition breaks for
illegal-alien college students, failed to complete an
agreement to let state police enforce federal
immigration law and criticized enforcement efforts
both at the federal and state level.

But Mr. Beck yesterday said Mr. Huckabee has made a
number of key promises going forward, including to not
grant illegal aliens long-term legal status; to reject
a guaranteed right of return for those who go home
voluntarily under his nine-point plan; and to not
increase green cards as a way of allowing them to come
back more quickly.

"Probably, this is the strongest no-amnesty, attrition
plan of any of the candidates," Mr. Beck said.

Numbers USA does not plan to endorse a candidate. The
group has asked all of the candidates to sign the
pledge, but Mr. Huckabee is the only one to do so.

Mr. Beck said doing so will improve Mr. Huckabee's
rating on the issue, bringing him in line with Mr.
Thompson, Mr. Romney and Rep. Duncan Hunter of
California.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Huckabee continued tapping
into the network of Christian conservatives that
served him well in winning the Iowa caucuses. He
signed his immigration pledge at North Greenville
University, a Christian school in the state's far
northwestern corner, after holding a rally with
hundreds of students there.

In his speech to the students, Mr. Huckabee took a
swipe at Mr. McCain on immigration, though he didn't
mention the senator by name.

"I don't think electing somebody who's part of the
Washington scene makes a lot of sense, because if they
could've fixed it, they would have," Mr. Huckabee
said. "It's the principle that says that if you're
faithful in little [things], you're given
responsibility over greater things. But if you're not
faithful with what you have, we don't give you greater
responsibility, we take that responsibility and we
give it to someone who might exercise it more
responsibly."

At the end of the rally, the students held a group
prayer led by school President James B. Epting.

"You've got to be pleased that one who loves You is
running for such an important position," Mr. Epting
said in his prayer.

Another RepubliCON flip flopper. That's not what he said when he was the Governor of Arkansas.

He also recently said that he wants to ammend the Constitution to fit god's law, whatever the hell that means. Which god is he talking about?

And, he believes that the earth was created some 6 to 8 thousand years ago. That's fine if he believes that shit, but he also wants that ridiculous belief taught in all public schools, which is nuts.

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Better than giving them drivers licenses like Hillary and the rest of the DemRATS would have us do. Oh wait that's right , Hillary changed her position, but well, maybe not, I think then she said no ?? ... right ?? oh well... Just make her pres right Dumb ASS!